It is a Chelsea season we simply can’t fairly work out.
Final season was simple – the worst factor occurred at any attainable second, all 12 months lengthy.
This season is extra sophisticated. It lures you in with a few moments of promise, then throws you proper again to the depths of a 12 months in the past.
Each time we string two good performances collectively, we then comply with it with a few dreadful ones. Mauricio Pochettino swings forwards and backwards, out and in of the followers’ good books.
Far too many instances we’ve referred to as end result a turning level. There’s simply no predicting a group that may be humiliated at house by Wolves then head to Birmingham days later to play an outstanding recreation and crush Aston Villa in considered one of their greatest video games of the season.
So betting on the Blues, even with new-zealand gives with bet365, is a dangerous enterprise. How do you even predict the subsequent recreation, not to mention the remainder of the season?
Nicely, we’re everlasting optimists, and with Christopher Nkunku match and Nicolas Jackson again within the squad, we fancy us to complete the season higher than the bookies may count on.
The subsequent couple of months aren’t simple, however we are able to scrape just a few outcomes. We’ve performed properly in a few of our video games towards high sides this season, and within the coming weeks we face our reverse fixtures towards Man Metropolis, Newcastle, Arsenal, Man U and Spurs.
Then the run as much as the conclusion of the season could be very good – in reverse order, it’s Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest, West Ham, Villa, Brighton, Everton, Sheffield United. Loads of these groups may have little to play for within the ultimate weeks of the season, with relegation trying fairly sure for some and mid-table mediocrity assured for others.
These are 7 very winnable video games, to shut out the marketing campaign. Now we actually are getting overexcited, however simply think about if we discover our kind over the subsequent two months and fly into that run with a whole lot of confidence (and maybe even Reece James again and match). Might you rule out a run of 5 or 6 wins from these 7 video games? We might discover ourselves catapulted up the desk simply when it issues most.
Nonetheless, earlier than we begin worrying about that, we’ve acquired to get by these subsequent few weeks. The way in which this final 18 months have gone, would anybody be that shocked if we lose 5 in a row and find yourself proper again within the hell spiral we’ve been attempting to scramble out of?
